LotInfo Lite

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OVERVIEW

LotInfo Lite is a Windows based, one-stop center for mapped information about New York City properties.

LotInfo Lite uses a block level map of the City's five boroughs to access financial, ownership, zoning and physical information about each property in the five boroughs. Individual lots are represented by symbols, color coded by land use An easy-to-use map interface provides quick access to detailed property information- both from LotInfo and from your own sources- together with an overview of the city's neighborhoods.

LotInfo Lite's easy-to-use map interface provides an overview of the city's neighborhoods, combined with quick access to detailed information- both from LotInfo and from your own sources- about individual properties.

LotInfo Lite can be delivered on disk for individual PC use, or placed on a server or intranet for multiple users.

Using LotInfo Lite, you can

Browse the map, click on a lot symbol and bring up property information,     conveniently arranged by category in the LotInfo data viewer.

Overlay subway lines and stations on the map, and access average weekday,     Saturday and Sunday station ridership by clicking on a subway station.

Overlay the boundaries of city administrative districts, community districts     and census tracts

Print out maps, together with property information, for presentations and     reports

Add your own data to the map from in-house spreadsheets and databases,     flag your favorite properties, annotate the map directly, and manage your     own property portfolio.

Using LotInfo Lite with SpotLink, you can

link photos, documents, floor plans and other images to individual lots, and     call them up by clicking on symbols on the map. (see add-on modules)

Using LotInfo Lite with SalesLink, you can

Call up a map of actual sales transactions during the past year. Lots that     have changed hands in the past year are color coded. You can access sales     information, including actual sale price, by clicking on a lot.  SalesLink data is     updated monthly. (see add-on modules)

Base Mapping

The LotInfo Lite base map is a block level map of the city with streets and street names, parks and park roadways, highways and shore lines. Individual lots are represented by symbols.

Subway lines and subway stations are color coded and labeled. MTA station ridership figures (average weekday, Saturday and Sunday) appear in the data viewer when you click on a station.

Lot symbols are color coded by general land use category, including vacant lots. The land use legend can be turned on or off. Note: Detailed land use categories are displayed in the data viewer

US Census Boundaries, NYC Administrative Districts, Electoral Districts and Zip codes can be overlaid on the lot level base map, and turned on or off. District ct boundaries include:

City administrative districts:	Boroughs Community Districts School Districts Police Precincts Fire Companies Health Areas Health Center Districts
Census and Postal Boundaries:	US Census 2000 Tracts US Census 2000 Blocks Zip Codes
Electoral Districts:	City Council Districts State Assembly Districts State Senate Districts US Congressional Districts

Custom map layers.

You can order map layers with additional mapped information from LotInfo (for example: flood plains, business locations, US census geography with selected demographic data), on a custom basis.

Importing your own data.

You can automatically add your own property lists to the map from Excel™ spreadsheets ,Access™ or other databases. Your properties are automatically placed on a separate layer and are color coded on the map. Properties can be added, deleted or updated.

"My favorites" map layer.

You can click on a property of interest and add it to a "my favorites" layer that can be turned on or off. The selected lots will be automatically color coded for identification.. You can quickly zoom to any of these lots by clicking on a "favorites" list, displayed on the left hand side of the screen.

Using the map

LotInfo Lite's map tools allow you to move around the map, zoom in or out , and browse any area of the city for properties of interest.

A key map of the five boroughs allows you to click on a spot within any Borough, and zoom the map to the corresponding area in the lot level map 

You can select a borough, enter an address, street intersection or block-and- lot number, and zoom the map to the immediate vicinity of the lot.

Selecting  lots to retrieve information

You can access the desired information for any property in the City by clicking on a lot on a lot symbol, and then clicking on a tab in the data viewer. Note: lots with multiple condominium properties have been programmed to return data for all condominiums associated with the lot. 

The measuring tool allows you to measure distances between points on the map, and adds up line segments to return totals for routes with multiple segments.

LotInfo Pro contains the following data about individual properties: Tax Value, Owner, etc.- Organize list according to data viewer tabs.

Number of Buildings on Lot
 Number of Easements
 Lot area
 Lot frontage
 Lot Depth
 Irregular lot
 Corner lot

 Borough
 Tax Block
 Tax Lot
 Address
 ZIP Code

 Community District
 Census Tract
 Census Block
 School District
 City Council District
 Fire Company
 Health Area
 Health Center District
 Police Precinct

  Historic District
  Landmark Name

 Building Class
 Land use general categories; detailed codes
 Building Frontage
 Building Depth
 Proximity
 Year Built
 Dates of first and second alterations
 Gross building square footage
 Number of building floors
 Total number of residential units
 Building is condominium
 Number of condominium residential units
 Number of condominium commercial units
 Abandoned building
 Fire damaged building

 Zoning district 1 and 2
 Commercial overlay 1 and 2
 Special purpose district 1 and 2
 All Zoning Components 1 and 2
 Split Zoning Boundary
 Floor Area Ratio - FAR
 Maximum Allowable FAR

 Zoning Map Number
 Sanborn Map Number
 Tax Map  Number

 Assessed and market value: land
 Assessed and market value: land plus buildings
 Exempt Land Value
 Exempt Total Value
 Calculated land values per square foot
 Percent change in values from previous year
 Tax class
 Utility tax class

 Owner name
 Ownership type
 Owner address
 Owner city, state, zip
 Last updated date of ownership
 Contact name

You can select a category of information (e.g."owner") and call it up by clicking on the appropriate tab in the data viewer. (See the LotInfo Lite printable brochure for a display of the data viewer tabs)

LotInfo Lite is updated annually.

LotInfo can provide within-year updates on a custom basis.

LotInfo Pro mapping is assembled from the following New York
City Department of City Planning (DCP) sources:

DCP Pluto "Bytes of the Big Apple"© Digital Block and Lot maps

DCP "Lion" files (address matchable street mapping with street names,     highway designations and shoreline boundaries

DCP digital District Boundary mapping

LotInfo Lite attribute data is assembled from New York City Department of Finance, New York City Department of City Planning and Metropolitan Transit Authority data files
Note: LotInfo does not alter source mapping or attribute data, and is not responsible for any errors that may be contained therein

The recommended system requirements are as follows:

PC with Pentium III class processor (Pentium IV 1.4Ghz or higher
    recommended)

128 MB Ram (512MB Ram or more recommended)

VGA or higher resolution monitor (Graphics card required)

Resolution 800x600 (1024x768 or higher)

Hard Disk Space approximately 2GB with full install of 5 boroughs

Microsoft Windows 98 or Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP3 or higher
    (Windows XP or Windows 2000 recommended).